10 technologies that refuse to die
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* Dave glances at his analog watch, last set to the exact second (as sponsored by Acurist on the third beep) on the day it was bought eighteen months ago * * Dave glances at his desk clock that is set via a radio time beacon * * Dave glances at his analog watch again * There are eight seconds between them, I would hazzard a guess that the time taken to transfer into radio waves, get to my clock, and be processed is responsible for at least part of that difference. The other four or five seconds are probably from when I pull the adjustment pin out too far when changing the date. :-D
David Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
Putting the laughter back into slaughter
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What is forcing you to use continuous forms? Why not letter size or A4 sheets of mailing labels in a laser or inkjet? Memes don't exist - tell your friends
Because if you want to just print one label, you are left with an A4 sheet with 9 (for example) unused labels which will jam the printer if you try and put it through again... :mad: Stormblade www.torrentstorm.com
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Because if you want to just print one label, you are left with an A4 sheet with 9 (for example) unused labels which will jam the printer if you try and put it through again... :mad: Stormblade www.torrentstorm.com
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What is forcing you to use continuous forms? Why not letter size or A4 sheets of mailing labels in a laser or inkjet? Memes don't exist - tell your friends
Why spend $40 on an inkjet cartridge that lasts 30 days, when an impact printer ribbon costs $6 and lasts for 3 months? Labels are not works of fine graphic art, after all.:) Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl -
you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true... -
A Rant. The still predominant use of fax machines is insane. My bank won't cancel a transaction without a fax. They won't accept an email, won't accept a phone call and even if you visit their offices and strip naked, they won't cancel the transaction without a fax. Think it is secure? They eventually accepted the cancellation fax from me personally rather than from the merchant. I could have modified the merchants fax in a thousand different ways. Most of our clients, ordering cutting edge e-commerce websites from us and working on G5 Macs or P4 PCs, print out screenshots, scribble on them and fax those through to us as bug sheets. Wait a minute, my boss and salesmen do this too. So much for screenshot, paint, paste into Email and send. Microsoft demanded a faxed copy of a payment receipt signed by the boss for our MSDN subscription... How bizarre. A client had to authorise a domain transfer but we were the controller according to the register. So they took one of our faxes, scanned it in, cut out the middle with Photoshop, added in their text, scanned in the signature from an invoice my boss had signed, pasted that onto the fax, printed it and faxed it to the register. It worked. Fax machines can be engaged. You have to keep trying until it is available. No queing like email. The paper can go in and come out skew, goodbye anything near the margins. Some people have a dual phone and fax number. You fax them and they answer, then hurriedly put the phone down so the fax machine can warble it's connection through. Those awful curly paper rolls some fax machines use. God almighty but is that annoying when you have a fax of 80 pages, each one neatly curled in on itself and spread across the floor when you arrive in the morning (that is if the paper cutter is still working, if not you just get a mobius strip that latches onto you like the creature from the Blue Lagoon!) The only bit I like is that they sound like a modem, except after twenty retries to a busy fax number you start twitching and contemplating performing a gravity experiment out the window. Let us kill all the estate agents and lawyers right now so as to get rid of this awful hunk of junk. End Rant. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
It's long past time for fax machines to die.:mad: Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl -
you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true... -
"*paul checks his analog watch* *sweep* *sweep* Ahh, lovely. It even ticks!" but analogue watches are notoriously bad at their essential job - keeping time accurately!
Nonsense. Analog watches are more than adequate for normal human activities. Computers care about miliseconds - humans don't. A decent watch needs resetting about once every two weeks, and then only if you care about being a minute or two off. Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl -
you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true... -
* Dave glances at his analog watch, last set to the exact second (as sponsored by Acurist on the third beep) on the day it was bought eighteen months ago * * Dave glances at his desk clock that is set via a radio time beacon * * Dave glances at his analog watch again * There are eight seconds between them, I would hazzard a guess that the time taken to transfer into radio waves, get to my clock, and be processed is responsible for at least part of that difference. The other four or five seconds are probably from when I pull the adjustment pin out too far when changing the date. :-D
David Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
Putting the laughter back into slaughter
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A Rant. The still predominant use of fax machines is insane. My bank won't cancel a transaction without a fax. They won't accept an email, won't accept a phone call and even if you visit their offices and strip naked, they won't cancel the transaction without a fax. Think it is secure? They eventually accepted the cancellation fax from me personally rather than from the merchant. I could have modified the merchants fax in a thousand different ways. Most of our clients, ordering cutting edge e-commerce websites from us and working on G5 Macs or P4 PCs, print out screenshots, scribble on them and fax those through to us as bug sheets. Wait a minute, my boss and salesmen do this too. So much for screenshot, paint, paste into Email and send. Microsoft demanded a faxed copy of a payment receipt signed by the boss for our MSDN subscription... How bizarre. A client had to authorise a domain transfer but we were the controller according to the register. So they took one of our faxes, scanned it in, cut out the middle with Photoshop, added in their text, scanned in the signature from an invoice my boss had signed, pasted that onto the fax, printed it and faxed it to the register. It worked. Fax machines can be engaged. You have to keep trying until it is available. No queing like email. The paper can go in and come out skew, goodbye anything near the margins. Some people have a dual phone and fax number. You fax them and they answer, then hurriedly put the phone down so the fax machine can warble it's connection through. Those awful curly paper rolls some fax machines use. God almighty but is that annoying when you have a fax of 80 pages, each one neatly curled in on itself and spread across the floor when you arrive in the morning (that is if the paper cutter is still working, if not you just get a mobius strip that latches onto you like the creature from the Blue Lagoon!) The only bit I like is that they sound like a modem, except after twenty retries to a busy fax number you start twitching and contemplating performing a gravity experiment out the window. Let us kill all the estate agents and lawyers right now so as to get rid of this awful hunk of junk. End Rant. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
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"*paul checks his analog watch* *sweep* *sweep* Ahh, lovely. It even ticks!" but analogue watches are notoriously bad at their essential job - keeping time accurately!
My Eurochron gets reset by the atomic clock every day at midnight. :cool: BW CP Member Homepages
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You ever had a good analog watch? My Swatch kept perfect time for 5 years before it had to have it's battery finally replaced. I think Breitling or Omega would have your head for hinting that their time pieces are inacurate. Sure, maybe if we were talking about hundreds of years to nuclear clock standards then you can have the floor... but man, my watch ticks! :-D regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
When I moved recently, I went through some personal items I had stored in a box. One of the things was my dad's Seiko watch. He died in 1975 and since then, his watch has been stored in various attics and closets. I picked it up and the second hand ticked a few times. I wound it up and tick..tick..tick. Set the time it works perfectly.